Participant Spotlight
Mel Goodale, University of Western Ontario Research area: NeuropsychologyProfessor Mel Goodale holds the Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario. He is best known for his work on the functional organization of the visual pathways in the cerebral cortex, and was a pioneer in the study of visuomotor control in neurological patients. His recent research uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to look at the activity in the normal human brain as it performs different kinds of visual tasks. His recent book with David Milner, ‘Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision' (Oxford University Press), provides compelling arguments that the brain mechanisms underlying our conscious visual experience of the world are quite separate from those involved in the visual control of skilled actions. These ideas not only have implications for our understanding visual deficits in neurological patients, but also offer some new directions for the design of robots and artificial visual systems.
NewsSummerFest '09 Summer School: The Functional Organization of the Central Visual Pathways
Mel Goodale, this week's spotlight is presenting a Summer School course at this year's SummerFest. Visual systems first evolved not to enable animals to see, but to provide distal sensory control of their movements. Vision as 'sight' is a relative newcomer on the evolutionary landscape, but its emergence has enabled animals to carry out complex cognitive operations on representations of the world. In the more ancient visuomotor systems, there is a basic isomorphism between visual input and motor output. In representational vision, there are many cognitive ‘buffers’ between input and output – and the relationship between what is on the retina and the behaviour cannot be understood without reference to other mental states. The duplex nature of vision is reflected in the organization of the visual pathways in the primate cerebral cortex. The dorsal 'action' stream projecting from early visual areas to the parietal lobe mediates the visual control of skilled motor acts. The ventral 'perceptual' stream projecting from early visual areas to the temporal lobe provides the rich and detailed representation of the world required for cognitive operations. Find our more about our Summer School program here: http://sf09.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest09/summerschool.
Last Chance to Register: HCSNet Workshop on Movement and Motion Capture
Motion capture is now recognised as a powerful technology for understanding the science of human movement and its relation to human cognition. This workshop will bring together leading and emerging researchers using cutting edge technology in motion capture to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration. The workshop will also provide opportunity for participants to engage in demonstrations and tutorials using Vicon facilities housed in Macquarie University’s Music, Sound and Performance (MSP) Laboratory and Optotrak equipment in the Action and Cognition Laboratory housed in the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science. To find out more and register please go to: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2009/movmotcap09.
Call for Papers: The Australasian Document Computing Symposium 2009
ADCS 2009 is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in document management and information retrieval to meet and present their work. The symposium aims to cover all aspects of Document Computing - issues ranging from the fundamentals of document architectures and standards for markup, through storage, management,retrieval, authentication and workflow, to active and virtual documents. The symposium will emphasize both commercial and academic issues by encouraging a variety of submissions. This year ADCS 2009 will be part of our SummerFest'09 program, find out more here: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest09/adcs09.
SummerFest '09 Early Bird Registration Now Open!
Early Bird Registration will open on the 7th September. Registration fees include lunch vouchers on the days of attendance, tea and coffee breaks, summer school course notes and workshop proceedings. Registered attendees can also purchase significantly subsidised conference dinner tickets at $60 ($30 for students). For details please go to: http://sf09.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest09/registrationfees.
Postgraduate Research Awards - MARCS Auditory Laboratories
MARCS Auditory Laboratories currently has 2 Postgraduate Research Awards available, offering a competitive tax free living allowance of $30,427 per annum and a funded place in the doctoral program. Projects available include; 'Thinking Head - Performance' with supervisor Dr Garth Paine (ga.paine@uws.edu.au) and 'Thinking Head and Head-User Evaluation' with supervisor Assoc Prof Kate Stevens (kj.stevens@uws.edu.au). For further information visit the scholarship website: htpp://www.uws.edu.au/research/scholarships.
NAL Presentation - Saving Kids' Hearing: Where do we begin?
NAL is pleased to have Dr William Martin visiting us on Monday 14th September. Billy is Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and Professor of Public Health & Preventive Medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland and has a wealth of experience in health promotion research.
One of his many hats includes Director of the Dangerous Decibels Program (http://www.dangerousdecibels.org)- a health promotion campaign designed to reduce the incidence of Noise Induced Hearing loss, by raising awareness and educating school-aged children. His work in this area has received international interest and we are delighted to have him sharing some of his knowledge with us.
To this end, Billy will be presenting "Saving Kids' Hearing: Where do we begin?" on Monday 14th September at 2pm in the lecture theatre on level 1, 126 Greville Street, Chatswood. We invite you to join this discussion and to pass this invite on to anyone you believe may be interested in meeting Billy or learning more about this work.
CSIRO Vacation Scholarships
CSIRO has vacation studentships available for the Xmas period in Sydney and Canberra. The closing date is 18 September 2009. You can find out more at the CSIRO careers website: https://recruitment.csiro.au/asp/Job_Details.asp?RefNo=2009%2F549.
Upcoming Seminars
We list here upcoming seminars that are happening in the next month. A more complete list of seminars can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.
1st Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics: Sign Language Learning and Teaching
Bristol, United Kingdom
Date: 24 Sep 2009 to 26 Sep 2009
URL:
Upcoming Submission Deadlines
We list here upcoming submission deadlines that fall in the next month. A more complete list of submission deadlines can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.
Upcoming Conferences
We list here upcoming conferences and workshops that fall in the next month. A more complete list of events can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.
The Third International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 10 Sep 2009 to 12 Sep 2009
URL: http://www.acii2009.nl
TSD 2009 An International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
Plzen, Czech Republic
Date: 13 Sep 2009 to 18 Sep 2009
URL: http://www.tsdconference.org/
ICANN 2009 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
Limassol, Cyprus
Date: 14 Sep 2009 to 17 Sep 2009
URL: http://www.kios.org.cy/ICANN09
IVA'09 Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 14 Sep 2009 to 16 Sep 2009
URL: http://iva09.dfki.de/
MME'09 Measuring Mobile Emotions: Measuring the Impossible?
Bonn, Germany
Date: 15 Sep 2009
URL: http://mme.cure.at
5th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon
Pisa, Italy
Date: 17 Sep 2009 to 19 Sep 2009
URL: www.gl2009.org
Workshop on Natural Language Processing methods and corpora in translation, lexicography, and language learning
Borovets, Bulgaria
Date: 17 Sep 2009 to 18 Sep 2009
URL: http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in0963/ranlp/
http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2009/socialtechnology09 Social Technologies for Health and Medicine
Melbourne, Australia
Date: 21 Sep 2009 to 22 Sep 2009
URL:
1st Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics: Sign Language Learning and Teaching
Bristol, United Kingdom
Date: 24 Sep 2009 to 26 Sep 2009
URL:
Workshop on Games, Dialogue and Interaction
Paris, France
Date: 28 Sep 2009 to 30 Sep 2009
URL: http://anr-prelude.fr
KDIR 2009 Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
Madeira, Portugal
Date: 6 Oct 2009 to 8 Oct 2009
URL: http://kdir.ic3k.org
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